Ready or (mostly) not, the Rio Games beginSecurity is swarming, the venues are iffy and the opening ceremony will be a low budget affair. Tolerance is the watch-word.
Sir Steve Redgrave and Mike Spracklen: A river runs through themLads from Marlow connected by Olympic dreams and past glories
A pub’s-eye view of the Opening CeremoniesWhat better place to tap the British soul on the eve of the Opening Ceremonies?
Go easy on the gesamtkunstwerkTrust the Germans to have precisely the word for the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
What a difference a day makes, eh, wot?So, finally, it’s the opening morning of the XXX Summer Games. (Warning: don’t type that into your search engine)
Three hours, $41M, 10,000 volunteers and countless rumours about the Opening CeremoniesOfficial kickoff of the 2012 Olympics fuels no end of speculation
Quite an introductionBetween the sometimes-luminous opening ceremonies and the corny clichés of the closing show, Canada presented versions of itself the world had never seen
Top 10 worst moments at the Vancouver Olympic GamesRod Black, Melissa Hollingsworth and plenty of figure skaters make the list
The Olympics worst-dressed list (UPDATED)PHOTO GALLERY: The ugliest team uniforms we’ve seen at the Vancouver Games